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brifka

brifka noun: a small folding envelope used for keeping diamonds or other gemstones in.

Noun

brifka (countable and uncountable, plural brifkas)

  1. a small folding envelope used for keeping diamonds or other gemstones in
    • With a pair of tweezers, he removed a dazzling rose-coloured crystal from the brifka2014, Echo Freer, Diamond Geezers
  2. by extension a gem envelope including its contents

Forms of brifka

pluralbrifkas

Origin of brifka

Yiddish בריווקע (brivke, “little letter”), a diminutive of Yiddish בריוו (briv), meaning a (postal) letter. Brifka is thus a "little letter". In turn derived from Old High German briaf, which is borrowed from Latin breve, a neuter form of Latin brevis (“short”). Cognates include Middle Dutch, Middle High German brief, and Dutch brief, Old Norse bréf, Old Saxon brēf (all of them borrowed from Latin) and English brief.

Questions about brifka

What does brifka mean?
Brifka means a small folding envelope used for keeping diamonds or other gemstones in.
What part of speech is brifka?
Brifka is a noun.
What is the plural of brifka?
The plural of brifka is brifkas.

Words near brifka in the dictionary

  1. brieve
  2. brieves
  3. brieze block
  4. brieze blocks
  5. brifentanil
  6. brifka
  7. brifkas
  8. brifter
  9. brifters
  10. brig
  11. Brig Bretach

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